Karimov's younger daughter says plans to step down as Uzbek permanent representative to UNESCO
MOSCOW. Aug 28 (Interfax) - First Uzbek President Islam Karimov's younger daughter Lola Karimova-Tillyayeva said she plans to resign as the country's permanent representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
"Upon completion of several current UNESCO projects I plan to give up my role as an ambassador in the near future and focus on my family, personal goals, programs being implemented by the Islam Karimov Foundation, other creative, cultural and charitable projects of our team," she said at the 'Central Asian Renaissance in the History of World Civilization' international conference in Samarkand on Monday.
"I am very grateful for these ten years, during which I have worked together with the best minds from the whole world, and I am again convinced that the beauty of the world lies in the diversity of people, and that humankind's strength and its future lie in its striving toward a great unity and solidarity," Karimova-Tillyayeva said in a speech posted on her Facebook page.